Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Warfare and diplomacy in precolonial Nigeria : essays in honor of Robert Smith / edited by Toyin Falola and Robin Law.

By: Smith, Robert Sydney
Contributor(s): Falola, Toyin | Law, Robin
Language: English Publisher: Madison : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.Description: [iv], 224p. : maps ; 28cm.ISBN: 094261514X
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves H75 [SMI-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L64519
Total holds: 0

Includes bibl. notes. - Contents: Introduction: studies in precolonial African war and peace / D.J.E. Maier; Western Nigeria. The Oyo-Dahomey wars, 1726-1823 / R. Law; Warfare and trade relations between Ibadan and the Ijebu in the 19th century / T. Falola; Warfare and military alliances in Yorubaland in the 19th century / D. Oguntomisin; Crises, warfare and diplomacy in 19th century Ilorin / H.O. Dammole; Notes on leatherworking in Ilorin / A. O'Hear; Notes on warfare and the Ilorin aristocracy / O.A. Banwo; Images of war and conflict: Olowe's Ogoga palace door / M. Okediji; Two new Owu settlements / A. Alao; Women and warfare in Yorubaland during the 19th century / F. Afolayan; The Yoruba worldview on women and warfare / T.M. Ilesanmi; The past in the present: Faboro and contemporary Ido politics / T. Akinyele; The siege of Oka, ca. 1878-84 / A. Olukoju; Central and northern Nigeria. Warfare on the Jos Plateau in the 19th century / M. Mangvwat; The weak shall survive: Gbagyi and the powerful states of northern Nigeria / Sule Mohammed; Religion as resistance and diplomacy in Yauri / F.A. Salamome; The military factor in the history of Gobir / A.R. Augi; Succession in Sokoto / S.A. Albasu; Violence and the acquisition of slaves in the Bauchi Emirate, 1805-1900 / A.M. Yakubu; Notes on the economic consequences of the Sokoto jihad / K. Faluyi; Kinship and warfare in Igbo society / U.D. Anyanwu; Igbo-Benin wars / D. Ohadike; Ethical ideals of peace and the concept of war in Igbo society / J. Oriji; Warfare and diplomacy in Ibibio / M. Efiong Noah, T. Ekpo; Warfare and diplomacy in the Niger delta / N.C. Ejituwu; War, migration and settlement in Owerri oral traditions / F. Ekechi.

Book